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  • How a Chinese Nation-State Group Reverse-Engineered NSA Attack Tools
  • Kr00k Wi-Fi Vulnerability Affected a Billion Devices
  • Rare NSA Advisory About Russia-Based Cyberattacks Unlikely to Stop Them
  • Commercial Spyware Uses WhatsApp Flaw to Infect Phones
  • Researcher Publishes Four Zero-Day Exploits in Three Days
  • Researchers Find Vulnerabilities in Popular Remote Learning Plug-ins
  • Collection of Metadata -- as Done by the NSA -- Likely Unconstitutional, US Court Suggests
  • Attackers Continue to Exploit Outlook Home Page Flaw
  • Google Adds More Security Features Via Chronicle Division

Collection of Metadata -- as Done by the NSA -- Likely Unconstitutional, US Court Suggests

Published: 2020-09-04 17:20:00

Popularity: 85

Author: Robert Lemos Contributing Writer

A ruling in an appeal by four men convicted of material support for terrorism finds that the National Security Agency's metadata collection program not only violated the prevailing law at the time but was also likely unconstitutional.

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Rare NSA Advisory About Russia-Based Cyberattacks Unlikely to Stop Them

Published: 2020-06-01 17:35:00

Popularity: 189

Author: Robert Lemos Contributing Writer

The Sandworm group -- behind disinformation and election-hacking campaigns and responsible for a 2016 power outage in the Ukraine -- is now targeting e-mail servers.

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Researchers Find Vulnerabilities in Popular Remote Learning Plug-ins

Published: 2020-04-30 16:00:00

Popularity: 94

Author: Robert Lemos Contributing Writer

As more students move to online learning platforms, vulnerability researchers are revealing security flaws in some common software plug-ins.

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Google Adds More Security Features Via Chronicle Division

Published: 2020-02-25 18:30:00

Popularity: 48

Author: Robert Lemos Contributing Writer

Order out of chaos? The saga of Chronicle continues with new security features for the Google Cloud Platform.

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Kr00k Wi-Fi Vulnerability Affected a Billion Devices

Published: 2020-02-26 15:15:00

Popularity: 276

Author: Robert Lemos Contributing Writer

Routers and devices with Broadcom and Cypress Wi-Fi chipsets could be forced to sometimes use encryption keys consisting of all zeroes. Now patched, the issue affected a billion devices, including those from Amazon, Apple, Google, and Samsung.

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Attackers Continue to Exploit Outlook Home Page Flaw

Published: 2019-12-04 15:45:00

Popularity: 53

Author: Robert Lemos Contributing Writer

Researcher Publishes Four Zero-Day Exploits in Three Days

Published: 2019-05-23 23:45:00

Popularity: 147

Author: Robert Lemos Contributing Writer

The exploits for local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Windows could be integrated into malware before Microsoft gets a chance to fix the issues.

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Commercial Spyware Uses WhatsApp Flaw to Infect Phones

Published: 2019-05-14 21:44:00

Popularity: 184

Author: Robert Lemos Contributing Writer

A single flaw allowed attackers - thought to be linked to a government - to target human rights workers and install surveillance software by sending a phone request. The victims did not even have to answer.

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How a Chinese Nation-State Group Reverse-Engineered NSA Attack Tools

Published: 2019-05-07 19:15:00

Popularity: 481

Author: Robert Lemos Contributing Writer

New Symantec research shows how the Buckeye group captured an exploit and backdoor used by the National Security Agency and deployed them on other victims.

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